Ibbankatuwa Pre-historic Burial Grounds in Dambulla

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  Shihan Mohamed

  :: 02 April 2018 18:19:35

  Ancient burial ground and pots they used can be found here.

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  Lalith Blok

  :: 25 March 2018 00:10:04

  Interesting archeological discovery, but more needs to be done to educate visitors on the significance of the findings.

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  amila gunesekera

  :: 17 March 2018 18:25:58

  Beautiful place with well kept garden.You will see the history Megalithic tombs.The site is believed to be belongs to the megalithic prehistoric and protohistoric periods of Sri Lanka. It os on Kurunegala Dambulla road,five kilometres from Dambulla town on your left. You get parking and ticket for a foreign tourist is around three US dollars and local will pay one hundred. I will give five stars considering value,cost and neatness of the place.

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  Indika Vithanage

  :: 03 March 2018 23:57:55

  Highly recommended place to visit for all the tourists. Very nice work by the Central Cultural Func.

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  Rangika Halwatura

  :: 14 February 2018 22:49:37

  One of the best historical site, which proved good maintanance in Sri Lanka. I have experiencedbmany here, however many of those were very badly managed. The credit should go to the management here. There are three stages of excavations and all the readings found were believed to be belongs to the same era. This is sort of an old cemetery where the remains were placed after burning the bodies. The remains were then put in to clay pots, again burnt clay pots. Finally those were covered with stone slashes. This is just on the main Dambulla road and easily can be located. Only one excavation was carbon tested for aging. As per the results, it was found that these remains are more than 2700 years old now. That means this civilization goes beyond the arrival of king Wijaya from India. This is in away a showcasing of our ancient culture and the technology. They burnt the remains and as a respect they put them in to burnt clay pots. It's clear that the ancient Sri Lankans had a much civilized culture, whch even could respect the remains of a dead person. They placed these in a burnt clay pots. That means they were will aware of the clay (soil) technology and Chemical soil stabilization. They covered these pots with stone slashes. If they made permanent structures for cemeteries, we can easily assume that they too lived in well built dwellings. So all together we can easily conclude that the ancient Sri Lankans were with a well developed culture with respect to other western countries.